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What Nassau public school districts have the smallest class sizes for elementary grades? I would like to move to a location with a shorter commute to nyc(midtown east and westside).
Will need to consider a good middle school in 2-3 years also.
Renting the first year then may buy in the 800-950 range, could spend 1.1 but the higher taxes will be difficult. (No Great Neck schools please.)
I wouldn't get hung up on class size as that can change at any time. This is one area where it's pretty easy for the school board to save some money - eliminate a teaching position and cite declining enrollments. My kids' primary school added a huge addition as part of a bond due to the school "bursting at the seams" and then the following year there were two less teachers???
When my oldest were in first grade, they had 21 kids in their classes. Two years later they had upped that number to 25 in a first grade class. No TA. That's a lot of kids. Garden City's schools are on the older side and some of the classrooms are pretty small. We moved before my youngest had to go into that.
Don't confuse smaller school districts with smaller class sizes. And don't confuse school board class size 'guidelines' with actual class sizes. And finally don't confuse smaller class sizes with 'best' school districts. And once you get to the high school level, 'average class size' is almost meaningless (given how averages work).
My suggestion? Make your decision based on the overall district reputation and don't base so much of your decision on class size. Like someone else pointed out, class sizes can change. And there are districts that do very well even though they don't have small class sizes- obviously, socioeconomic factors play into this. And of course, small district does not equal small class sizes- the larger districts often have more flexibility in this regard.
I wouldn't get hung up on class size as that can change at any time. This is one area where it's pretty easy for the school board to save some money - eliminate a teaching position and cite declining enrollments. My kids' primary school added a huge addition as part of a bond due to the school "bursting at the seams" and then the following year there were two less teachers???
When my oldest were in first grade, they had 21 kids in their classes. Two years later they had upped that number to 25 in a first grade class. No TA. That's a lot of kids. Garden City's schools are on the older side and some of the classrooms are pretty small. We moved before my youngest had to go into that.
How many years ago was that?
I currently live in Garden City and there are 16 kids per class in K and 1.
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